In Defense of Endless War
By Christopher Hitchens: As 9/11 showed, civilization has enemies with which peace is neither possible nor desirable.
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How civilizations fall
By Kenneth Minogue: Camille Paglia famously said that if we had waited for women to invent civilization we should still be living in grass huts.
Read MoreAdolescent Brains are Works in Progress
By Sarah Spinks
Read MoreInconvenience Lives
By Robert H. Bork: The question of whether abortion is the termination of a human life is a relatively simple one.
Read MorePedophilia Chic, Part 2
By Mary Eberstadt
Read MorePedophilia Chic
By Mary Eberstadt: If you thought sex with children was taboo–think again.
Read MoreAn update on the culture wars
By Roger Kimball: Moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and vice is the opposite. —Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
Read MoreOkinawa, Harry Truman, and the Atomic Bomb
By Alexander Burnham: Okinawa had shocked the American civilian and military leadership.
Read MoreThomas Jefferson’s Sophisticated, Radical Vision of Liberty
By Jim Powell: When Virginians reflect on the American Revolution, they often like to describe George Washington as its sword, Patrick Henry as its tongue, and Thomas Jefferson as its pen.
Read MoreNatural Law and the Constitution
By Robert H. Bork: Natural law seems an unlikely topic for extensive television coverage, nor would one expect United States senators to develop high anxiety over the subject.
Read MoreA New Order of Religious Freedom
By Richard John Neuhaus: In his draft of the “Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,” Jefferson wrote: “The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.”
Read MoreRonald Reagan’s 1977 CPAC Speech
By Ronald Reagan: We know today that the principles and values that lie at the heart of conservatism are shared by the majority.
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Ronald Reagan’s ‘A Time for Choosing’ Speech
Click here for the transcript.
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